Blog 3

I'm pretty sure that I have magic; I'm incredible at multi-tasking, not to toot my own horn. I do do many activities at school. For awhile, I've also been working two jobs. And on top of that, I still manage to keep my grades up.

The space on the back of my letterman jacket has been filled up in a year. Most of the letters are for music. I love music and it's even better shared with people that love it as much as I do. I play a few instruments and I'm always open to learning more; music takes effort and dedication, like many people in my bands and choir give. Last year, I had 4 music classes - 3 instrumental and one vocal. They never conflicted, however; most competitions or little gigs we would share, so it was very convenient for the band/choir kids to transition between the two.

Choir and cheerleading never wanted to cooperate, though. My music teacher and my coach were always butting heads and their dates were always overlapping for events. The biggest game of the year is always against Central (not that I know why because we haven't beat them in years), and I remember having to miss it along with about 10 other choir girls. My coach made the Junior Varisty and Varsity cheer together because both squads have the same uniform and she wanted to look as big as Central's Varsity squad. I love to root for my team, even if they aren't very good. It just took me awhile to realize that I wasn't meant to be a cheerleader; some of the girls weren't there to help our team win. They were there for gossip, for drama. And even being the captain my first year and the co-captain my second year, I couldn't piece the squad together.

The whole unity thing didn't really seem to work with my squad and it bothered me, so I tried to find something else to occupy more of my time - I got another job. I discovered my love for money. My money is not complicated and it is only good to me. I found that working made me feel a tad better about my stressful teenage life. But I found it hard to work two jobs with no car!

Juggling all these things has been difficult, and I haven't even talked about school yet. Now school, to me, is much too long. But it wasn't as time consuming as the things that I had to do to do well in school. I'm in a program called Creighton Upward Bound. Basically to stay in the program, you have to complete 2 hours of tutoring; and no, you don't go out and tutor - you are tutored. Then, every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the morning you Saturday Morning Class. Even though it takes up a lot of time, I'm always dedicated to it during the school year.

Last school year, I took on many tasks. I count all of them as successes. Next year, I'll be even more involved, with no lunch period once again. I took on even more music classes and even made Drum Major for the fall. I think that I'll even stick with two jobs, hopefully replacing one though. Even though it's definitely to keep up with it all, I know that my grades won't fall.